verse 1 
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As we go marching marching in the beauty of the day, 
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A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, 
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Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses, 
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For the people hear us singing: "Bread and roses! Bread and roses!" 


verse 2 
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As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men, 
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For they are women's children, and we mother them again. 
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Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; 
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Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread but give us roses! 


verse 3  
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As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead 
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Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread. 
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Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew. 
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Yes, it is bread we fight for - but we fight for roses, too! 


verse 4  
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As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days. 
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The rising of the women means the rising of the race. 
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No more the drudge and idler - ten that toil where one reposes, 
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But a sharing of life's glories - Bread and roses! Bread and roses!